WEDDINGS

WEDDINGS; Rachel Alexander, Max Nichols

Published: May 27, 2001

Rachel Michele Alexander, the daughter of Jane and Ronald Jacobs of Potomac, Md., and Max Nichols, a son of Annabel Davis-Goff and Mike Nichols, the film and stage director, both of New York, were married in Venice on Friday. Zafiro Alessia, a state registrar, officiated at the Venice city hall. This evening, Rabbi Joui Hessel will perform a religious ceremony, also in Venice.

Mrs. Nichols, 27, is a sports reporter for The Washington Post. She graduated from Northwestern University. Her father is the managing partner in Weinberg & Jacobs, a law firm in Rockville, Md. Her mother is an associate director of an outreach and education program at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md.

Mr. Nichols, also 27, finds new recording artists and coordinates music marketing at Tommy Boy Music, a recording company in New York. His mother is a novelist whose most recent book is ''The Dower House'' (St. Martin's Press, 1997).

His father's movies include ''The Graduate,'' ''Primary Colors'' and the recent film adaptation of ''Wit'' for HBO. The bridegroom's stepmother is the television morning show host Diane Sawyer.